Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reston is right in thinking that foreign affairs reporting is often sensationalistic and short-sighted, but that is no reason to advocate a style of writing half way between reporting and analyzing. The confusion which would result from this half and half formula would be that readers would be unsure as to what was fact and what was opinion...
...University of Kentucky found a formula to make education unusually fascinating? Not really. What it has found is a group of unusual students: all are at least 65 years old. In the first program of its kind in the nation, Kentucky offers free tuition to all students-even those from other states-who are members of the Medicare generation. Started in 1964 at the urging of the university's Council on Aging, the program, which might well be called Educare, has attracted 160 students. It will add another 25 next fall and will honor its first graduate this summer...
...premise is finally revealed: without telling Andrews, physicist Newman plans to stage a mock defection to East Berlin to pry a formula from the brain of a Communist physicist, a formula necessary for the completion of Newman's own missile project. It becomes apparent that Hitchcock will use the nightmare world of East Berlin to test the lovers. Like many of his recent films, Torn Curtain is essentially a romantic character study, a realization that adds to the excellence of the first half of the film...
...Torn Curtain ultimately fails because the conflicts between Newman and Andrews are neatly resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
...Most ocean racers are at best compromises, partly designed for speed and partly for family cruising. The Cal-40s are all business: short on finery, heavy on sail and with a light (15,500 Ibs.) hull that thumbs its nose at the intricate rites of rating-the official formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill Lap-worth, 46, who had been teaming with Builder Jack Jensen, 40, for five years on smaller fiber-glass models...